When the editors of Vanity Fair sat down to plan the layout for their November 1932 cover, they probably had only one thing on their minds: How can we top our Mussolini cover? Perhaps the October issue of that year sold like hotcakes; maybe Mussolini was the Jennifer Aniston of his day. Whatever the case, Frank Crowninshield and his cadre of magazine minds decided Hitler was the perfect follow-up to Il Duce, and Vanity Fair’s fascist two-punch will forever go down as one of the most bewildering back-to-back cover choices in this magazine’s history.